Bah, more draconian TOS [haha, they rewrote]

Instagram tests new limits in user privacy

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While I am not a freakbook user, people should be aware of what they're clicking when they 'Agree' to sell their souls.

Instagram, which spurred suspicions this week that it would sell user photos after revising its terms of service, has sparked renewed debate about how much control over personal data users must give up to live and participate in a world steeped in social media.

In forcefully establishing a new set of usage terms, Instagram, the massively popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc, has claimed some rights that have been practically unheard of among its prominent social media peers, legal experts and consumer advocates say.

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Facebook is evil. In fact, social media in general is a giant conglomeration of data mining life-blood suckers. Known as fertile ground for all law enforcement efforts aimed at profiling and stratifying.

That is an awesome video you added proto , this thread can easily sidetrack to that subject.

Thanks. Chris Duane is a former Marine that started TGTNT. I personally subscribe.

The lack of critical thought in our debt driven economy, and consumerist society has fueled what many believe to be an impending collapse of the dollar, along with consequential reformation imminently thereafter.

Instagram: we won't sell your photos

He said that Instagram would re-write the terms to clarify how pictures might be used. "The language we proposed also raised question about whether your photos can be part of an advertisement," Systrom wrote. "We do not have plans for anything like this and because of that we’re going to remove the language that raised the question."

The website's operators can suspend suspicious-looking accounts until the user provides evidence that they are who they say they are. Formal ID is often required, such as a scanned copy of that person's passport. These images are temporarily kept on Facebook's system while the real name is fully verified.

Instagram[1], the popular photo-sharing and social-networking service acquired this year by Facebook, faces a strong public backlash over a newly proposed terms of service[2] agreement that allows your photos to be sold to outside businesses without either compensation or consent.

This move, while certainly savvy from the profit perspective, caused a huge pushback[3] from the application’s users. Whether they sent complaints, deleted photographs, or removed their entire account, the consensus seems to be that the change was a violation of a larger, somehow more fundamental agreement about the nature Instagram’s service. This sentiment was enough to motivate[4]Wired’s Mat Honan:

“By putting terms in place that offered no way to opt out, short of deleting your account, Instagram delivered an ultimatum,” he writes. “And so I quit Instagram on principle. Because I’m tired of contributing to the commodification of my own existence.”

“The commodification of my own existence.” Amazing sort of phrase. It is an American sentiment: a principled defense of the individual and the ownership of your own being, an assertion of the liberty that comes with life.

But if this is the proper response to “commodification” in the business world, why do we continue to tolerate it in politics?

After all, Instagram only wants our photographs. Perhaps they figured that Americans—being so accommodating to politicians and bureaucrats who insist on having power over land, homes, wages, television, cars, health care, and retirement funds—could stand to give up control over their venerated pictures of bare feet and empty plates.[5]

Whether it’s the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), our lives have never been more subjected to the whims of an unelected, “progressive” bureaucracy[6].

When it comes to government power grabs, it turns out everything is a commodity.

“Suppose,” he imagines[8], “that I were building a great piece of powerful machinery, and suppose that I should so awkwardly and unskillfully assemble the parts of it that every time one part tried to move it would be interfered with by the others, and the whole thing would buckle up and be checked. Liberty for the several parts would consist in the best possible assembling and adjustment of them all, would it not?”

He goes on to make the appropriate conclusion: “Human freedom consists in perfect adjustments of human interests and human activities and human energies.”

So there’s the liberal view: Human beings are nothing more than component parts of a giant “Liberty Locomotive.” We are the commodities, and when our masterful engineers tell us that we must move one way or another, go to one place or the next—who could rightfully object?

But take heart: At least when it comes to Instagram, liberty prevails[9]. The complaints triggered a rapid apology, and the company made clear that “we respect that your photos are your photos. Period.”

The locomotive analogy reminds me of 'Thomas the Train'. I was shocked to find how much mind control they were instilling into toddlers, including union busting, the female train relegated to laundry and flower picking, venture of the rails and be laughed at and ridiculed to you are on the same track as everyone else, mountain trains as retards, and on and on and on. I was disgusted.

EDIT: How did you like Zuckerburgs sister being pissed about her freakbook photo being shared globally. I laughed my ass off.

The locomotive analogy reminds me of 'Thomas the Train'. I was shocked to find how much mind control they were instilling into toddlers, including union busting, the female train relegated to laundry and flower picking, venture of the rails and be laughed at and ridiculed to you are on the same track as everyone else, mountain trains as retards, and on and on and on. I was disgusted.

Facebook is evil. In fact, social media in general is a giant conglomeration of data mining life-blood suckers. Known as fertile ground for all law enforcement efforts aimed at profiling and stratifying.

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